WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund’s bailout program for Ukraine assumes Kiev will be able to get $15.4 billion from talks with its creditors, according to four sources familiar with the IMF’s documents. …read more Source:...

The EU was founded to bring peace and prosperity to the peoples of western Europe after a century of catastrophic wars, by co-operation, pooling of sovereignty and free trade. Its first objective, as stated in the Lisbon treaty, is “to promote peace, its values and the well-being of its peoples”. On the global stage its role should be to promote...

Vladimir Putin has admitted for the first time that the plan to annex Crimea was ordered weeks before the referendum on self-determination, the BBC reports. …read more Source: Macedonian Information...

Bulgaria will be granted EUR 126.6 M for the next five-year period under bilateral and multilateral European Economic Area (EEA) financial mechanisms. This emerged after political consultations between Bulgaria and Norway at the level of Deputy Foreign Ministers, which took place in Sofia on Monday, the ministry’s press service reports. The...

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday said in reference to the situation in Ukraine that the road to a political solution to the conflict in the region is still one “full of obstacles” and efforts still need to be made in this respect. …read more Source:...

The ethnic and religious groups in Bulgaria have lived peacefully together for centuries and the saving of the Bulgarian Jews during WWII is the brightest proof of that. This has been said by President Rosen Plevneliev, who has received the delegation of the American Jewish Committee, headed by its Executive Director David Harris. The head of...

“Compared to the active phase of the conflict (in the south-east of Ukraine –note by BelTA) the flow has reduced. But we cannot say that it has stopped completely,” Aleksei Begun said. …read more Source:...